So you've been together with your romantic partner for a while now, but how do you know whether or not you're falling in love? In the initial stage of dating, it might be hard to pinpoint what your heart is telling you and you may have a surge of mixed intense feelings all at once. You might be unsure of whether or not it's merely physical attraction, infatuation or the real deal. Moreover you may be wondering what your partner thinks of you and if they've given any thought towards developing your relationship even further. How do you fully decipher your emotions? How do you fully decipher your emotions? Here are 10 signs to tell if you're falling in love: 1) You find yourself trying new things When people fall in love they often step out of their comfort zone and engage in activities or interest their partner favors. You find yourself curious to learn more about them. So you begin to participate in their hobbies or eat their favorite foods. This in turn also h...
Instagram fun facts
Pictures are one of the most incredible inventions.Snapshots in time of people, places, and events—frozen forever, along with all of those special memoriesand feelings attached. They can convey emotion, illustrate ideas, and even inspire the humanspirit. But we mostly use them to take pictures of our food.
Let’s take a look at some interestingfacts you may not know about one of the most popular photography and social networking apps out there: Instagram.
The computer code powering the social mediapowerhouse known as Instagram was written over a period of eight weeks by cofounderKevin Systrom, though he says that over a year of work went into the final product.He taught himself the art of computer programming in the late hours after his day job, developinga few basic ideas that helped him to hone his programming skills whilst laying down the ground work for the app we know and love.
The name "Instagram" is a mash up of "instant"and "telegram". It was inspired by the way snapshots are taken with the app and sent"over the wire" to others. Sure, it’s not technically accurate, but it’s a lot catchier than “Insta-teleport your pictures through the air”.The popular trend of making nostalgic posts to social media known as "Throwback Thursday"first began on Instagram.
So remember to thank Instagram the next time your friends share that old embarrassing photo of you. The app was initially released on October 6th, 2010. It figuratively exploded overnight, gathering over one million registered usersby the end of the year. By December of 2011, Apple named Instagram their App of the Year,and the world of hastily posted meal photography with a filter slapped on top hasn’t been the same since.
Former wrestler and Hollywood superstar Dwayne“The Rock” Johnson organized a crowd of fans at a movie premier in London in orderto break the world record for most selfies taken in three minutes, as recognized by theGuinness Book of World records. In November of 2010, the Instagram team madethe decision to move into an empty office in San Francisco’s South Park. But it wasn’tjust any old office, it was the former first office of another social media powerhouseknown as Twitter.
Hot off their first month of resounding success, the fledgling teamwas eager to make a statement to the rest of Silicon Valley: they were ready to jointhe big leagues. Popular musician Ellie Goulding created anentire music video for her song "Anything Could Happen" using nothing but fan submittedInstagram photos. The video features twelve hundred photos stitched together with somesnazzy editing for the entire three minute and fifty-one second runtime, immortalisingher lucky fans for as long as YouTube persists. Equal parts creepy and cool, Instagram allowsyou to tag your current geographical location when you snap a selfie.
Using their PhotoMap feature, you can see every place you and you friends have taken pictures, for betteror worse. Just remember not to tag your location when you’ve just called in sick to workbut you’re actually on an impromptu camping trip with your mates.In 2012, Facebook purchased Instagram for an estimated one billion US dollars in coldhard cash and company stocks. Instagram’s Twitter account has made 6,497posts for its 39.6 million followers.
It only follows three users in turn: Instagram @musicand the two cofounders of the company. However, even with that many followers it lands only12th on the list of the most followed Twitter accounts, behind the likes of Barack Obama,Youtube, and Twitter itself. One of Instagram’s early prototypes wastitled “Burbn” named after one of cofounder Kevin Systrom’s favorite drinks.The most popular filter on Instagram is actually no filter at all! Sometimes a good picturejust speaks for itself.
Other times, you really should have dressed it up at least a little.The line between those two worlds is perilously thin, my friends.As of January 2015, Instagram sees traffic from over three hundred million monthly activeusers. That’s a whole lot of people chronicling the minutiae of their lives with the humblephotography app, falling just shy of the total population of the United States.According to a study performed by AT&T, a staggering 70% of drivers admit to using theirphones whilst driving. From that group of naughty drivers, 14% admit to have been usingInstagram.
Who knows, in future public awareness advertisements might be telling you not theadd filters to selfies and drive. The first Instagram photo was uploaded onJuly 16th, 2010, whilst the app was still in development. Two short years after thefirst test picture was uploaded, over one billion user-shared-photos had joined it inthe cloud. The most followed account on Instagram is,unsurprisingly, Instagram itself. Next in line is the ever-popular singer and actressBeyoncé, with almost forty million followers as of July 2015.
Following close behind is the no less influential but perhaps far more controversial Kim Kardashian, with aroundthirty nine million followers. In a study which included many Instagram sourcedphotos, it was determined that filtered photographs are 21% more likely to be viewed and 45% morelikely to be commented on by viewers. The spike in engagement was most noteworthy withfilters that boosted the picture’s warmth, exposure, and contrast.
Back in 2012, when Instagram was managed by just fifteen employees and still surging withbewildering popularity, certain unsavory types began to use it as a platform for sharingx-rated images. Since then, the development team has worked hard to tone down the titillatingcontent in favor of more family friendly fare. But have they succeeded?In January of 2015, an Instagram user had their account banned for showing a littletoo much besides their bikini.
To put it bluntly her pubic hair was on show. Instagram reversedtheir decision in short order, after reviewing the case and determining that there was noactual nudity on display, but a staunch debate continues to rage on to this day between Instagramand the feminist community, over what should be considered censorable material.
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